Tenant Reviews for 95 WALL STREET

1: No Central A/C in a LUXURY Apartment. The elevator lacks AC and hallways. However the concierge have AC and complain if your handicapped and use the the regular door for entry. 2: Code & Building Violations falsely stated occupancy during construction and adjustment of signs causing a fire hazard. As well as access to stairwells. 3: Be prepared for a MANDATED charge of $70 per month for “smart home” locks, and sensors in your apartment. As if our $3700 a month rent shouldn’t be covering that. What does 95 wall/UDR pay? 4: Prepare for the mandatory $500 yearly amenities fee for a year that was under construction and unavailable for use. Again from a legal perspective what does our high rent cost pay for? 5: Be prepared for Coackroaches, Mosquitoes and Bed Bugs and the maintenance workers impeding on your legal right to notice of entry at any given time and blaming you for their lack of care in garbage disposal and pest control management. 6: Be prepared if your disabled to have to alternative to access your apartment except climb 8 fleets of stairs with stage 4 bone disease, spinal fractures and scoliosis. No accommodation considerations made. In addition be prepared to be scrutinized for using a door vs the spin door after a tenant wasn’t following your attention and broke your rib. Be extremely cautious as you be attacked for being disabled and humiliated. * I would like a return on my deposit $100 paid and to move into a more safe building. On multiple occasions I’ve been accessed inappropriate questions and feel as though there’s already a reason they are trying to take advantage of someone in my situation. Shame On you 95 wall. You can do better and shall one day be a better company that is inclusive.

Avoid if possible

Pros: Location and having an elevator Cons: Not asthma safe, lack of air flow, hot water only in the kitchen, small flex rooms Advice to landlord: Building is not suitable for tenants

Anywhere but here

Pros: The dishwasher was ok. Package room guy is nice, but only open during the times you’re at work. Cons: Unsafe. There have been multiple murders, and robberies are shockingly frequent. Anyone can just walk in. There are also a lot of illegal airbnbs that bring in really sketchy people. Management knows (they check in at the front desk to get their key) and does nothing. Homeless people around both entrances. People regularly got followed and harassed. The apartments also all have “smart locks” that you have to pay a monthly fee for. People figured out the master code, so they can unlock whatever door they want. Elevators will be out for hours at a time. When they do work, they’re insanely slow. Just bake an extra 5-10 minutes into your commute. Pretty frequent power outages? The last one took a day and a half to fix. Management wouldn’t give an accurate estimate on how long it would take because if they did, they’d have had to pay for our hotel rooms. Paper thin walls that let you hear everything above below and beside you. Constant noise Insane utility bills. $400-500 in the summer. Really inefficient building where hot and cold air leak in through the windows and floors. You also pay for the building’s utilities, so even if you’re responsible, you’re still going to pay. The hidden costs of living here are ridiculous. You have to pay $70 for wifi, but it’s so bad that everyone has to buy Verizon wifi if they want to work from home or even stream a show. It’s actually unusable. Vents run all the way up, so you hear and smell everything in every apartment below you. Massive rent hikes. Expect at least 10%, but I’ve heard as much as 25%. The building is no longer rent stabilized, so they get you in with low rents and then jack up the price on renewal. Utilities never work well, break frequently, and maintenance is slow to fix if they fix at all. Multiple gas leaks. We didn’t have gas for like four months?? Management gave everyone the cheapest hot plate on Amazon to make up for it. Tons of roaches, and a growing number of apartments with bedbugs. Management is not diligent in addressing this. Advice to landlord: Just dissolve

High Heating and Cooling costs

Pros: ex Philippe Starck designed building, decent lounge on the roof-top, Cons: The winter and summer months can be brutal on your heating and cooling costs. The windows are poorly designed and not double-paned, therefore, you're going to have to run the heat on high during the winter months. Utility bills above 600/month are not uncommon. Advice to landlord: UDR should repair the windows

Avoid at all costs

Unit 2218 Pros: Convenient location with access to a number of trains. Cons: This building is awful. After living in 8 different buildings in NYC, this is hands down the worst. The front desk lets anyone in; this became apparent when a random screaming person roamed my hallway and then broke into my apartment. There were parties nearly every night; many mornings I would get in the elevator to walk my dog and find empty beer bottles on the floor. I felt completely unsafe and have zero peace and quiet (which, despite living in Manhattan, I have found in other apartments!). Advice to landlord: Invest in stronger security and vet your tenants.

College Student Overload

Unit 1511 Pros: Convenience to subway and has all of the makings of what a luxury building should be. But as the saying goes, it’s just lipstick on a pig. Cons: This building might as well have been sponsored by local colleges because most people that live here are students. They are super rowdy and because of their naiveness, management takes advantage. Also the elevator was really slow. Advice to landlord: Improve the conditions of the rooms.

Ok building with pros and cons

Pros: No amenity fee, location, w/d in unit Cons: Bad management last year, no gas for 5 months

Illegal construction, no gas, no water, no electricity

Pros: In unit washer and dryer, nice maintenance and doormen/building staff, gym, rooftop Cons: - Building management ignored reports of a gas leak which resulted in entire building’s gas being shut off for 6+ weeks; they did not offer any rent reduction or compensation - illegal after-hours street work on Water St causing immense amounts of noise and jackhammering from midnight until 7am - UDR is incredibly unresponsive for major issues and gets sassy - Water and electricity were turned off for entire day and night at the same time gas was out, tenants forced to pay out of pocket for hotel, building blamed ConEd but ConEd confirmed it was from a building fire, not related to ConEd - no transparency in electricity bill; bill doubled in the month when I was not even there -

Noisy, just okay

Pros: amenities were great Cons: could hear everything Advice to landlord: invest in noise absorbing something, the walls are very thin

Good First NY Apt

Pros: The building had friendly staff and was well maintained. Cons: Maintenance requests were slow to be completed and shoddily done. Advice to landlord: Fix your fridges and ACs. Keep your front desk staff